What a tiny company wants

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

You're right -- no one should pay for more than they want, and it's
unlikely that a tiny company would want that kind of content management
system.

That having been said: A lot of tiny companies will hire a tech writer
for just one task, with no guarantee of FTE. *Sometimes*, the writer
demonstrates additional skills that the company does want. If the added
value to the company is higher than the continued cost of employment,
there's your FTE.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura Lemay
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 1:05 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Guess what: we suck!
> 
> ... I've come across a bunch of really tiny 
> companies over the last ten years who look 
> at professional technical writers and 
> wondering what it is they're paying $50-
> 100K per year for exactly when they can 
> hire freelance writers to do much the same 
> thing for far less money and get what they 
> see as better quality writing. No, they 
> don't get complex single-sourced content 
> management systems in DITA. They get a book 
> in PDF, or a small collection of web pages. 
> That's all they want...
> 
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